India Government bans more Chinese apps (updated)

[Ink]

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https://www.xda-developers.com/india-bans-47-more-apps-clones-another-275-radar-including-pubgm-resso-zili-aliexpress-xiaomi/

According to an early report from News18, the Government of India released an order on Friday that banned 47 more apps with Chinese connections. These apps are said to be functional clones of the apps that were banned earlier. The list of the newly banned app includes TikTok Lite, Helo Lite, ShareIt Lite, Bigo Lite, and VFY Lite.

According to a separate report from Economic Times, the Government of India has drawn up a list of over 275 apps with Chinese connections, which shall be examined for any violation of “national security and user privacy”. This expanded list includes:

• Tencent-backed PUBGM
• Tencent‘s Ludo World and other apps
• Zili and thirteen more apps by Xiaomi
• AliExpress by Alibaba
• Resso, Ulike, Capcut by TikTok-owner ByteDance
• Games from Helsinki-based Supercell (which has Chinese investments)
• Apps from:
  • Meitu
  • LBE Tech
  • Perfect Corp
  • Sina
  • Netease Games
  • Yoozoo Global

The apps under this list have not been banned yet. The report mentions that some of these apps have been red-flagged due to security reasons while others have been listed for violation of data sharing and privacy concerns, and the concerns either way are in addition to the examination of alleged data flow from these apps to China which “poses a threat to sovereignty and integrity of India”.

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[Ink]

On top of existing Chinese app bans.

 

[Deletedmessiah]

"Super Clean - Master of Cleaner, Phone Booster"
Some of these apps are hilarious

 

[brambedkar59]

Never even heard of 90% of these apps but I had pro version of CamScanner
CamScanner was really well known, most office guys had it on their phone. And PUBG poor lads

 

[mlnevese]

I use CamScanner Pro. No other phone scanner software comes even close and tried all the well known ones.